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Introduced by Brian Redhead
With Hilary Osborn

including at:

6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Leslie Stokes

7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Harriet Cass

7.30, 8.30 News headlines

7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Presenter:
Hilary Osborn
Speaker (Prayer for the Day):
The Rev Leslie Stokes
Newsreader:
Harriet Cass

The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of the forthcoming week.

Studio quests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.

Contributors

Presenter:
Desmond Wilcox
Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Ian R. Gardhouse

John Timpson scours Soho for Lord Gnome, Grovel, E.J. Thribb, Slicker, Blackleg and the rest of the pseudonyms masking the contributors of gossip, satire and original investigative journalism that make up the fortnightly Private Eye.
Are its uncomfortable exposures of private lives, private dealings, and its occasional libels, in the public interest; and how far has pure gossip submerged high journalistic standards?
(Repeated, Tuesday 8.00 pm)
(medium wave only)

11.50 Announcements (medium wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Timpson
Producer:
Judy Graham
Producer:
John Turtle

A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. First Round: 1: South of England LITTLE HEATH SCHOOL, READING v WALLINGFORD SCHOOL, OXFORDSHIRE
Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and JOHN ANTHONY
Questions set by ROY SMITH
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated, Thursday; 6.30 pm) 12.55 Weather; programme news medium wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Anthony
Producer:
Griff Rhys Jones

Introduced by Sue MacGreger TothTtttTtco: a discussion on amatter of current concern. t.t:.! Newt Borbara Carttand Sjno <; and talks about love and lovers. Readtnp Your Letters.
Anstreritip Your Questions: Rep)ies to some of those received but not aired in recent TuMdox Cat) programmes.
Eton Teashop by PEG HOPE-JONEI abridged in nve parts by PAT MCLOUGHL !N and read by Mary Wimbush (1) More than 30 years ago. Peg Hope Jonea helped to run a teashop in Eton High Street. Her partner, and the originat owner of the teashop, was t toveabte and genuine English eccentric of 70 plus - CMoe.
(Music: Kreister't String Quartet)
Editor WYN KNOWLM medium mope ontj; Jrom !.*

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGreger
Unknown:
Borbara Carttand Sjno
Unknown:
Pat McLoughl
Read By:
Mary Wimbush
Editor:
Wyn Knowlm

Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 Weather; programme news
medium wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Presented By:
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Editor:
Derek Lewis

by Donald Bull
New stories about the characters created by A.J. Cronin
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
This week: How the World Goes Round
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Writer:
Donald Bull
Based on the characters created by:
A.J. Cronin
Broadcast by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Balfour:
Joe Dunlop
Murray:
John Graham
Mrs Murray:
Audrey Muir
Mrs James:
Nancy Mitchell
James:
Alastair Hunter

with Ian Hogg, Elizabeth Spriggs, Virginia Stride, and Jerome WilIis as
Talleyrand, Prince of Traitors written by David Pinner
"From the outset, I made it abundantly clear that Liberty, Order and Peace were the prime goals of all true statesmen. But the moment those statesmen reneged on the implicit trust the French nation had bestowed upon them, I used all the means at my disposal.... topple the offenders from their high thrones. And while they sank l survived."
Directed by MICHAEL ROLF
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Sunday 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
David Pinner
Directed by:
Michael Rolf
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord:
Jerome Willis
Dorothea:
Virginia Stride
Count Artois/Ouvrard:
Michael Deacon
Bishop of Bordeaux/Caulain-Court:
Hugh Dickson
Mirabeau/Abbe Dupanioup:
Manning Wilson
Madame Germaine de Stael:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Cuszac/Count Edmond:
Terry Molloy
Danton/Barras:
Geoffrey Matthew
La Ville/Admiral Bruix:
Jack Holloway
Napoleon Bonaparte:
Ian Hogg
Catherine Grand:
Catherine Kessler
Hortense:
Patricia Gallimort

by John Le Carre adapted for radio in five parts by Rene Basilico starring George Cole as George Smiley, Alfred Burke as Mendel and Douglas Blackwell as Peter Guillam
Smiley has to conduct the investigation into the Fennan case from a hospital-bed. leaving Mendel to do the 'leg-work' - which includes a visit to the theatre.
BBC World Service production

Contributors

Author:
John Le Carre
Adapted for radio by:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
George Smiley:
George Cole
Mendel:
Alfred Burke
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell
Adam Scarr:
George Innes
Ludo Oriel:
Shirley Dixon
Elizabeth:
Jane Knowles
Doctor:
Paul Meier

The House with the Green Shutters by GEORGE BOUGLAS BROWN
Abridged for radio in 16 parts by STEPHEN MULRINE
Read by John Shedden Producer TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scottand medium wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
George Bouglas Brown
Unknown:
Stephen Mulrine
Read By:
John Shedden
Producer:
Tom Kinninmont

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